Although I keep forgetting that they are several hours behind EST. which is why nothing's happening yet. it's still 2 hours til the start of the earliest LLC window.

d'oh!

Clark Lindsey said that the gate opened for first flight attempt at 8:00, which means 10:00 EST and that Armadillo could have been in the air in as little time as an hour after the gate opened. So theoretically they could have launched about 45 minutes ago.

the first time Armadillo tried to launch, nothing happened. The team had to track down the glitch, recycle its countdown and repressurize the Mod-1's propellant tanks for another go.

Armadillo Aerospace now says it has scrubbed this morning's attempt to win the Level 1 prize, due to problems with ignition (or actually, the lack thereof). They'll try again with the Mod-1 craft at 12:45 p.m. MT. That means that Armadillo's bid for the big $1 million Level 2 prize in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, using its Pixel lunar lander prototype, will likely have to wait until Sunday.